Gigabyte X79 motherboard with 8 DIMM slots pictured

Intel remains tight-lipped on the subject, but Turkish site Donanim Haber has come upon pictures of a new Gigabyte X79 motherboard that may shed some light on the matter. The board proudly proclaims its PCI Express 3.0 support, so that's still in the cards in some form. However, given Intel's history with the gen-two spec, it's probably not safe to assume that the next-gen PCIe implementation is running at full speed.